It seems to me, new atheists/skeptics have made a great deal of the issue of 'meaning', and brought it centre stage. In turns, they say the Universe has no meaning, then that we find our own meaning. I suspect both things are true, depending on perspective. Perhaps more to the point, reading some of the posts on this forum, I've begun to come to the conclusion that 'meaning' is not nearly as important to the debate as the new atheists have made it. Some people have a need for meaning that others clearly have not, and what people need from the idea of meaning is individual. It's as though the new atheist/skeptic community has pushed this thing onto centre stage to prove a point that illustrates their philosophy, buts it's a point that is actually irrelevant to the discussion. We can adhere to the strict rules of scientific method, and still look beyond them if we need more, as individuals. We don't need to be preached to by Dawkins, and the question of meaning, or 'why', has only become relevant because they've made it so.